eShiftLog Overview

eShiftLog is designed to provide a rapid data entry facility of port operational data.  eShiftLog was designed for simplicity, to focus the user on just two primary screens.  The Shift screen where the overall shift information is entered and the Events screen which shows a graphical Gantt chart of the events that occurred during the shift.

The events screen is used to provide a graphical Gantt chart display and entry of the events that occurred on a given shift:

Events Screen – Gantt Chart

The Events Screen is the primary eShiftLog Screen.  This screen provides a traditional Gantt chart view of the recorded shift events.  Points of note on this screen are:

1. Date and time are shown across the top of the display.

2. Vessel and crane information is highlighted using specific shapes and contrasting colors

3. Delays are rendered in red for special emphasis below the corresponding crane usage

This screen provides an intuitive drag and drop user interface, allowing the user to quickly and easily move events.  When an event is selected, a context sensitive menu for the event, ship, crane or delay is displayed that lists all of the tasks that can be performed on the selected object.

For example:

Crane Usage

A summary of each crane activity (work sequence or run) is recorded in eShiftLog.

When the usage is complete, the operator will enter a reason why the usage was stopped.  The reason codes are user definable, typical reason codes could be:

Crane Delays

Each time the crane is delayed during a crane usage, a delay is entered in eShiftLog.  eShiftLog will correlate these delays to help you to determine possible root causes of various problems, enabling more efficient use of valued resources. 

Using the pop up entry screen, the actual entry of a delay only takes a few quick mouse clicks from the main Gantt chart screen.

Each delay is assigned a delay code to assist in later analysis.  The delay codes are automatically associated with other previously defined descriptive information (setup during implementation):

Delay type:     You can define your own descriptive delay types to meet your own  specific organizational needs.

Planned:          Used when the delay is a planned delay, such as meal breaks.

Official:           For delays that may be “officially deducted” from the usage time.  For example, this could be the delays that are caused by the crane owners/operators.  Management define what is “official” at their port.

Engineering:   For delays that are caused by engineering/maintenance.